[
UK
/kˈæɹɒti/
]
ADJECTIVE
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resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant
a boy with carroty hair
How To Use carroty In A Sentence
- I like to grow varieties of the Nantes type, which reach deep into the cultivated soil and strike a perfect balance between sweet and carroty, even as they reach maturity. Groundwork: Rooting to the last
- Who is he whose hair is of the carroty hue? whose eyes, across a snubby bunch of a nose, are perpetually scowling at each other; who has a hump-back and a hideous mouth, surrounded with bristles, and crammed full of jutting yellow odious teeth. A Legend of the Rhine
- He had a fistful of my carroty locks and he seemed to be examining them very closely.
- She was a scatty woman with flyaway wisps of carroty hair.
- Also, rather tragically, she was cursed with carroty orange hair and freckles.
- Nobody was there but a touzy, ragged, halflins callant of thirteen, (for I speired his age,) with a desperate dirty face, and long carroty hair, tearing a speldrin with his teeth, which looked long and sharp enough, and throwing the skin and lugs into the fire. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
- A tall, thin rake of a Wearsider with carroty hair and a ginger moustache, he is a man who clearly loves his job.
- I can almost feel my carroty skin loosening at the thought…
- His most distinguishable feature was his mop of carroty hair.
- Why in the deuce was she not carroty-haired, or cross-eyed, or hare-lipped? Chapter 13